Marcel-wave device



H. ZINN.

MARCEL WAVE DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 16, 1922.

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INVENTOR.

HATTIE ZIN illin MAR-CEL-WAVE DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1922.

Application filed February 16, 1922. Serial No. 538,958.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HATTIE ZINN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Marcel-Wave Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to hair curling devices and more particularly to a Marcel wave device, my primary objectbeing the provision of a device of this nature which may be used by individuals at home and in the hands of unskilled persons, as well as by skilled hair dressers in hair dressing parlors and establishments, and which will avoid the necessity of years of experience required by the present day methods of properly completing Marcel waves.

A further object is the provision of a device by means of which the ordinarily long and tedious Marcel wave operation may be greatly shortened and simplified either in skilled or unskilled hands, and whereby a Marcel wave may be imparted to the hair which will be more lasting than that made by the methods now in use.

In the accompanying drawing which illus trates my present invention and forms a part of this specification,

Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a front and side view showing my invention in its electrically heated form,

Figures 3 and 4 show the externally heated form in front and rear view respectively, with a strand of hair extended therethrough for Marcel wave purposes, and

Figure 5 is a front view of the device or iron shown in Figures 8 and 4:.

Referring now to these figures my invention proposes a Marcel wave device which consists of an elongated stem having a handle at one end and having along its opposite sides series of outstanding arms arranged in a manner to be presently described.

Referring now to Figures 1 and 2 it will be noted that the stem, indicated at 10 and the ments extending into the stem through the handle 1 1 at one end of the stem, the latter of which is formed of nonconducting as well as heat insulating material having a feed wire 15 leading thereto from any suitable source of current.

In Figures 3, 1 and 5 I have shown a similarly formed implement intended to be heated by external heat, this stem being inclicated at 16, the opposing series of arms at 17 and 18 and the handle at 19. The stem 16 and the arms 1'? and 18 may be either hollow or solid as desired, the handle 19 being preferably formed of heat resisting material.

It will be noted from an inspection of the various figures that the outstanding series of arms extend along the stem in each instance for substantially the full length of the latter and are not only in staggered re lation, but are specially formed as to the shape of the arms themselves. By reference to Figure 2 it will. be noted that the arms are each rounded and by reference to Figures 1, 3, a and 5 it will be noted that each element is gradually increased in cross section from its smaller inner end adjacent to the stem to its outer and larger end.

Furthermore as to the staggering of the arms it will be noted that the arms of the two side series do not regularly alternate but are so disposed that the axial line of each arm is nearer to one of the opposite pair of arms than the other so as to bring about the peculiar arrangement of coils in a strand of hair passed alternately around arms of the opposite series in the manner illustrated in Figures 8 and a.

In use, the implement shown in Figures 1 and 2 is for the purpose of setting the wave in the hair heated internally by the electrical heating elements, while the implement of Figures 3, a and 5 is designed merely for use after external heating, to the same end.

It is of course obvious that strands of hair may be passed around the arms in a different manner than that indicated in Figures 3 and 4t and it is quite obvious that by the use of an implement of this nature constructed and shaped as shown, long as well as short strands of hair may be accommodated by passing them back and forth around and between the arms, the shape of the latter of which will tend to shift the coils in the strand of hair toward the stem and avoid accidental displacement from the arms.

I claim:

A device of the character described inc1uding an elongated stem having a handle at one end, and series of arms outstanding along opposite sides of said stem of which the arms at one side are staggered with respect to those of the opposite side,'each of 10 said arms havingits axial line nearer to one of an opposed pair of arms than the other.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

HATTIE ZINN. 

